Vol. 52, No. 1 (Winter 2022)




Table of Contents


FROM THE SFRA REVIEW

Winter 2022 (From the Editor)  •  Ian Campbell

The SFRA Review’s Transition to Partial Peer Review • The Editorial Collective

Become a Reviewer! Nonfiction, Fiction and Media Available for Review



FROM THE SFRA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

From the President  •  Gerry Canavan

From the Vice President  •  Ida Yoshinaga


FEATURES

The SF in Translation Universe #14  •  Rachel Cordasco 

Call for Papers: Sexual Violence and Science Fiction • Adam McLain



FICTION

Call For Submissions: Fiction

Call for Applications: Fiction Editor

“The Last Issue of Interplanetary Asteroid Mining Meta-Journal • Mario Daniel Martín



ON THE EDGE: THE FANTASTIC IN HUNGARIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (Part One)

The Austro-Hungarian Melting Pot: The Mythopoetics of Borgovia in The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing • Péter Kristóf Makai

Hungarian Rhapsodies: A Survey of the Alternate Histories of an Isolated Literary Corpus • Ádám Gerencsér

Undead Culture in the East: The Hungarian Vampire Negotiating the National Past in Comrade Drakulich • Ildikó Limpár

Lemon Juicers in Space: The Adventures of Pirx (1972–1973) • Daniel Panka

Star Girl on the Time Train: Children’s Science Fiction by Hungarian Women Authors in the Kádár Era (1956-1989) • Bogi Takács

Amongst You, We Are the Witnesses of Withering: Hungarian New Weird Spatial Formations in the Short Fictions of Lilla Erdei, Balázs Farkas, and Attila Veres • András Fodor

Copper, Silver and Gold: Metal Woods Set to a New Purpose in Hungarian Folk Fantasy • Mónika Rusvai

Interview with Bogi Takács • Vera Benczik and Beata Gubacsi

Interview with Theodora Goss • Vera Benczik and Beata Gubacsi



SELECTED PAPERS FROM LSFRC 2021

Living Beyond Stonelore: Suturing towards Multi-epistemic Literacy in N.K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth • Danny Steur

Crips Claim Space: Disabled Writers Resist Eugenicist Ideology Through Science Fiction • Laura Alison Nash

Controlled (Post)Human Bodies in Minister Faust’s War & Mir, Volume I: Ascension • Zita Hüsing

My Body, My Data: Orwell, Social Media, and #MeToo • Adam McLain

Dystopias in the Trump Era: Anti/Immigration and Resistance in CALEXIT • Anna Marta Marini

Teaching Law and Science Fiction at the University of Mississippi • Ellie Campbell and Antonia Eliason

Greg Sarris’s How a Mountain Was Made: Stories as a Transformative Indigenous Futurism • Arwen Spicer

Politics of the Margins in Octavia Butler’s Kindred: Queerness, Disability, Race • Marietta Kosma

Configuring the Caribbean through sf • Jarrel De Matas

Dissolving the Individual: Collective Consciousness as a Rebellion Against Neoliberalism in Tade Thompson’s Rosewater and Chana Porter’s The Seep • Jonathan Thornton

“So we can walk forward with knowledge of who we were before”: Landscape, History and Resistance in Sarah Maria Griffin’s Spare and Found Parts • Gabriely Pinto

Exoplanets as Sites of Rebellion • Emma Johanna Puranen

When was Celtic Futurism? The Irish Immrama as Proto-Science-Fiction • Chris Loughlin

The Hero Doesn’t Need a Face and We Don’t Need a Hero: 3%, Social Justice, and the Shared Protagonism of Brazilian Science Fiction • Thais Lassali

Bricoleurs in SF: Making Do Beyond the Walls of Utopia • Dave Hubble



NONFICTION REVIEWS

Review of Tolkien’s Cosmology: Divine Being and Middle-earth  •  Adam McLain

Review of The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture • Michael Pitts

Review of Cyberpunk and Visual Culture • Kerry Dodd

Review of Dread Trident: Tabletop Role-Playing Games and the Modern Fantastic • Clare Wall

Review of Posthuman Biopolitics: The Science Fiction of Joan Slonczewski • Bruce Lindsley Rockwood

Review of The Shape of Fantasy: Investigating the Structure of American Heroic Epic Fantasy • James Gifford

Review of The Monster Theory Reader • Lars Schmeink

Review of The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction • Baryon Tensor Posadas

Review of Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics • Kristin Noone

Review of Hidden Wyndham: Life, Love, Letters • Dennis Wilson Wise



FICTION REVIEWS

Review of Fauna • Susanne Roesner



MEDIA REVIEWS

Review of WandaVision • Jeremy Brett

Review of The Last of Us Part II • Steven Holmes

Review of Free Guy • Jess Flarity

Review of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, season 7 • Adam McLain

Review of Dune (Part One) • Ian Campbell